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- We
must be reminded over and over and over that the enemy is able
to project a feeling on to us that gives the illusion of
our thoughts having begun with us.
In other words, it is possible
to feel depressed, angry, afraid, anxious, numb, and all because
someone who hates you can spray it on you like a lawn sprinkler
or a pressure hose.
The Holy Spirit will not make you
worry. The Holy Spirit will not fill your mind with raging thoughts
of anger. The Holy Spirit will not initiate thoughts that cause self-deprecation.
That is why psychology is so lethal.
Christians today are taught to analyze their thoughts in the same way
the world does, and that very process lend substance to a thought pattern
that might otherwise be "led away captive".
Brothers and sisters, we take ourselves
far too seriously. We consider our feelings terribly important,
and that is heresy, according to the scriptures. If
I take an action opposite to the ungodly feeling, the enemy will
flee.
Sing a hymn loudly. Pray out loud for
the one with whom you are angry. Spend the afternoon at a nursing home
or rescue mission. If depressed, call someone and review
with them why they have hope in the Lord. Get moving!
I am to be a living sacrifice,
and I can't do that if I am lying on the altar, looking into
a pocket mirror.
THE BIBLE SAYS that I must agree
with God. If my thoughts are not in line with His, it is not
the fault of an alcoholic parent or a child-molester. I am responsible,
and the Lord will train me in learning to recognize when my thoughts
are out of line.
This is how we resist the enemy.
The battle is in the mind, and it comes out of the mouth.
You are not a helpless composite
of circumstances - you are a child of the King - born into a
Royal Race, and called to be a soldier and a living sacrifice!
Let us learn to know what
we are thinking, and to step away from satan's fiery darts, and
into the flow of the mind of Christ.
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